hey, thanks for the slides and the talk, they are stunning.

What tools did you use to create the presentation slides? What fonts are these? How did you decide upon this color scheme?

Check out this post he wrote:

http://zachholman.com/posts/slide-design-for-developers/

That's neat. It still leaves one related question unaswered for me. How would one go about making something like this [1] (but with arbitrary similar changes)?

[1] http://img803.imageshack.us/img803/6721/imagehy.png

Mostly it's confusing when advices of the type "do this" and "don't do this" are mixed together. For example, slide 64 and second line of 89 seems to contradict each other, or the "don't be an asshole" but "it's alright to be a dick" one.

Exactly, I'm actually mostly confused by this. At first it seemed like a good talk. I didn't agree with everything, but I don't have to, it was still a good talk... Now having read all, I'm more confused than anything else.

All life advice is like this.

If you made a gigantic list of every piece of unique and actionable life advice you've ever heard or given, you could probably find 30% of them contradicting another 30%.

I am hedging by giving a number as low as 30.

Sounds like you should add another slide. :P

I don't mind it too much. Sure we could get all the details from a 30 minute talk video/mp3, but I'm a lot less likely to view/listen to that than I am to read a presentation in big writing that I can read in < 5 minutes, and which I will still probably get the gist from anyway.